Lathrop Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Lathrop: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lathrop spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Lathrop holds about 0.1% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lathrop would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,149 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Lathrop	30.5 min	60.9 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,872	1,498
California	23.5 min	47.0 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,065	2,449
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Lathrop Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Lathrop. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lathrop

Walking is unusually rare in Lathrop: 5.4 times less than the California average (0.4% vs 2.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Lathrop, versus 0.2% in California.

Biking is essentially absent in Lathrop, versus 0.7% in California.

Few people walk or bike to work in Lathrop: just 0.4%, 7.0 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lathrop, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lathrop get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.3%	2.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.3%	2.5%	0.9%	1.0%	0.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	93.6%	2.5%	1.0%	1.0%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	93.5%	3.0%	0.8%	1.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	92.5%	3.3%	0.8%	2.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	91.9%	3.7%	0.6%	2.4%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	90.9%	5.0%	0.5%	2.4%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	91.2%	5.1%	0.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	91.3%	4.9%	0.3%	2.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	91.3%	5.1%	0.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	91.5%	5.0%	0.3%	1.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%
2020	91.2%	5.2%	0.6%	1.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	89.7%	6.8%	1.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	89.8%	6.3%	0.9%	1.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%
2023	87.8%	7.9%	1.4%	1.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	85.1%	11.0%	1.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 85.1% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lathrop: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 8.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 2.4% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Lathrop

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lathrop?

The bars show when commuters in Lathrop leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show California for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		17.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

Lathrop California Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Lathrop is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 17.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 27.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 32.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.1%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Lathrop, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Lathrop Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Lathrop next to California and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lathrop	California	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lathrop were on the road by 7:25 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Lathrop now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lathrop has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Lathrop in the whole series.

How does Lathrop's commute time compare?

Metric	Lathrop	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lathrop is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lathrop, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Lathrop, CA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lathrop, CA	27,462	30.5 min #2/3	11.0% #2/3	7:25 AM #3/3
Manteca, CA	70,217	26.1 min	9.9%	7:13 AM
Tracy, CA	85,045	33.7 min	13.5%	7:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lathrop, California.

Is living in Lathrop, California good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 254 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,872 at a typical national wage. That's 30% more than the typical California commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Lathrop, California?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Lathrop, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.